5) What should our logo and site design look like?
This one is pretty straightforward. Solicit contributions, throw out ideas, post preliminary (or finished) designs, and be supportive and respectful of other people’s ideas and creativity.

We have designers on staff who will actively help come up with site designs but, if an idea stemming from the community stands out as exceptional, we are happy to use it.

So, do you have any ideas for a theme? Do you have something you want to see happen here?

@jcolebrand - I may have some comments when we start seeing a theme, but for now it seems better to leave things as unrestricted as possible. I'm sure Jin will come up with something nice.
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Leigh RiffelJul 28 '11 at 17:37

No, he's looking for guiding ideas now. Go ahead and edit the post with some thoughts on a theme, he'll be checking this thread as he gets closer to working on this
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jcolebrand♦Jul 28 '11 at 19:25

I'm definitely in favor of the "Database Cylinder" style logo -- No ideas on the rest of the look-and-feel though
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voretaq7Jul 28 '11 at 20:38

For the logo, I'm definitely in favor of the cylinder since it's most recognizable(even by me!). I'm thinking it'd be a a cylinder, by made by smaller blocks, a person figure putting it together. hopefully I'll have the design ready next week for everyone to review.
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JinJul 29 '11 at 17:03

The NoSQL guys really don't have a centralized theme on account of that's like saying "flowers" and lumping in everything from roses to daisies to orchids, etc.

The above are the "big three" that most people have to support, but I figure you knew that. This is just some thoughts on what sort of coloration to go for.

For the codeblocks, I would love to suggest something with a colored stripe on the left hand side, with marginally smaller fonts on the fixed width format. idk if this is easily doable, but just an idea.

I'm drawn to using an orange (a-la the MySQL docu pages) for that left hand margin.

Since the meta will already be grey, I think limiting the amount of gray on the main will be a good idea. So blues become the primary hue, I think. Not altogether unlike sketchy.

However, these are just thoughts. I'm no graphic designer. I stand back and wait to be amazed ;)